RE: Rename `mini-' options

["Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>]

>> This is the first time I encounter something called "mini-windows",
>> but it seems to me, after having read the documentation for the
>> variable, that the minibuffer is an instance of them? Are there any
>> other mini-windows or is this just very poorly documented?
>
> Just poorly named and poorly documented. What is meant is the (active)
> minibuffer window.
>
> There can be more than one minibuffer window, but only one is active at
> any time.

The mini-window is the window that holds the minibuffer, but also the echo
area.  Try evaluating this with `eval-region':

(let (resize-mini-windows)
  (message (make-string 100 100))
  (sit-for 1))

(I didn't bother looking up the order of the arguments to `make-string'. 
100 may be made wider than your frame if you can figure that out. ;)

So: there's a reason for calling it something other than "minibuffer".

Davis

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